News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Friday, February 28, 2014

The Russians are coming

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To Ukraine it looks like. Ukraine in undergoing a revolution/civil war. The Russians are mobilizing their army. They call it "exerci...

Do we really need PreK?

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Pre Kindergarten education for four year olds. Obama and DeBlasio have been plumping for it, calling for new taxes to pay for it. Question...

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Climate Change. What can't it do?

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Cold and snowy winters, climate change. Drought in the US southwest, more climate change. Rain and flooding in Britain, climate change. H...

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Helicopter falls out of the sky

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Happened last November 29th in Glasgow, Scotland. A police helicopter suffered twin engine failures, both engines quit, and the chopper fel...

So how big a US Army do we need?

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First let look at what we might need the Army to do. How about defending Israel from invasion? How about doing regime change on Iran rathe...

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Mars has rivers

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A lot of rivers. We put a photo recon satellite, the Mars Global Surveyor, into orbit around Mars in 1997. It carried wonderful cameras th...

Monday, February 24, 2014

Aerodynamic efficiency and the airliner of the future

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Today's airliners are a long tubular fuselage, carrying the passengers and cargo atop a wing that does all the aerodynamic work, lifts, ...

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